Naming the Elephant: Worldview as a Concept
Digital Verbum Edition
Overview
What is a worldview?
What lies behind your thoughts about almost everything?
For more than thirty years, James W. Sire has grappled with this issue. In his widely used textbook The Universe Next Door, first published in 1976, Sire offered a succinct definition of a worldview and catalogued in summary fashion seven basic worldview alternatives. Students, critics, new literature and continued reflection have led him to reexamine and refine his definition of a worldview. This second edition companion volume to The Universe Next Door is the fruit of that effort, offering readers his most mature thought on the concept of a worldview, addressing such questions as:
Naming the Elephant is an excellent resource for exploring more deeply how and why worldview thinking can aid you in navigating your pluralistic universe.
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- Helps readers explore how and why worldview thinking can help navigating this pluralistic universe
- Provides a way for college students to understand the world of the university, full of new ideas
- Offers a foundation for assessing the truth claims of college students’ own faiths
- Camel, Kangaroo and Elephant
- Worldview Definitions: From Dilthey to Naugle
- First Things First: Being or Knowing
- Flesh and Bones: Theoretical and Pretheoretical
- Rational System, Way of Life and Master Story
- Worldviews: Public and Private
- Worldview: A Refined Definition
- Intelligent People Who Clash by Day: Worldviews as a Tool for Analysis